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GOODENIA CALENDULACEA.
Cape Mary gold-leaved Goodenia.
C L A S S V. ORDER L
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Five Chives. One Pointal.
G E N E R I C CHARACTER.
CALYX. Perianthium quadrifidum, fuperum,
perfiftens.
COROLLA monopetala, fupra long'itudinaliter
fifla, genitalia exierens; limbo quinquefido,
fecundo.
STAMINA. Filamenta quinqué, receptáculo infería.
Anthera; lineares.
P I S T I L L U M . Germen inferum. Stylus íimplex.
Stigma urceolatum, ciliatum.
PEKICAKPIUM. Capfula oblonga, bilocularis,
bivalvis; diffepimento parallelo.
SEMINA plura, fcabrida.
S P E C I F I C
Goodenia, foliis obovatis, craffis, fcabridis;
floribus axilaribus, céeruleis.
EMPALEMENT. Cup four-cleft, above, and remaining.
BLOSSOM of one leaf, cleft longitudinally on the
upper fide, expofing the organs of fru6tification
; border five-cleft, leaning one way.
CHIVES. Five threads fixed into the receptacle.
Tips linear.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple.
Summit pitcher-lhaped, and fringed.
SEED-VESSEL. Capfule oblong, with two cells,
and two valves; partition parallel to the
valves.
SEEDS many and rough.
C H A R A C T E R .
Goodenia with inverfely egg-iliaped, thick rough
leaves; flowers fitting clofe to the Hem, and
blue.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A Flower with all its parts complete.
2. A Bloflbm without the organs of fruftification.
3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud (magnified).
THE Goodenias are all natives of New Holland, and received their generic name of Dr. J . E. Smith,
Prefident of the Linnsean Society; in honour of the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, whofe valuable diifertation
on the Eritifli fpecies of Carcx, does him the highefl: honour, as a botanifi. The fpecies of this genus
(as yet difcovered) are ten, from which we may infer that they are numerous; thofe only yet introduced
to Britain are, the laevigata, ovata, and the prefent fpecies ; the others are defcribed by the
Prefident, in the fécond volume of the Linnican Tranfaâions. This plant, though not to be ranked
amongft the handfomefi: produâiions of that country, fo replete with novelty, is yet poiTeffed of fufficient
merit to give it a place in our colleaions of greeuhoufe plants, flowering about the month of
Auguft; delighting mofi; in an airy fituation, and light foil. It is eafily propagated by cuttings. Our
figure was taken from a plant which flowered at the Hammerfmith nurfery, in 1/97; where it had
been raifed from feeds, communicated by Colonel Paterfon, then commanding at Port Jackfon; to
whofe afliduous labours in colleSing feeds, &c. the cabinets and colleflions of our natural hiflorians
are fo very much indebted.
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